2012 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting emphasizes sustainability, graphene, and other materials highlights
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2012 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting emphasizes sustainability, graphene, and other materials highlights www.mrs.org/fall2012
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he Materials Research Society boasted over 6400 participants attending 52 symposia at the largest ever Fall Meeting and Exhibit of the Society. The Meeting Chairs, Chennupati Jagadish (Australian National University), Thomas Lippert (Paul Scherrer Institut), Amit Misra (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Eric Stach (Brookhaven National Laboratory), and Ting Xu (University of California–Berkeley) convened the meeting on November 25–30, 2012 in Boston, Mass. The larger Meeting was also accompanied by broader coverage of the technical sessions and events. MRS OnDemand® features videos of all of the award and plenary talks (including Plenary speaker and Nobel laureate Dan Shechtman of the Technion), and selected talks from symposia on sustainability, graphene, science education, and biomimetics for biomedical applications. To complement this extensive coverage, MRS-TV was introduced, dedicated to news and views from the Fall Meeting, presented in venues throughout the Meeting. Access to the video coverage can be found at www.mrs.org/fall2012, as well as further in-depth coverage of the technical talks and other events through Meeting Scenes and the online proceedings. This Fall Meeting particularly emphasized the Society’s new accent on materials and sustainability as well as the rapidly progressing research field of graphene. With the launch of the MRS Bulletin expanded issue on graphene (December 2012 issue), the guest editors—John Boeckl and Weijie Lu of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and
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Patrick Soukiassian of Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay and CEA/Saclay—also coordinated a tutorial, special forum, and technical sessions within Symposium W on the topic. Making headlines in 2010, when André Geim and Konstantin Novoselov received the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on graphene, the field has since been in the spotlight. The Forum directed its two sessions on how research in graphene is being funded around the world and on industrial partners, including start-up companies looking for applications and ways to mass produce this material. In addressing the question of commercializing large-area graphene, Mike Patterson of Graphene Frontiers said in his Symposium W presentation, “The days of the brilliant, reclusive, hide-inthe-lab inventors are really numbered, if not over altogether. You are not going to bring graphene technology to the market by yourself no matter how smart you are or how much work you put in.” Teamwork—including cooperative researchers, funding agencies, and investors—is the key to this challenge, Patterson said. Rosie Hicks, CEO of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF), spoke about how cooperative research on carbon nanomaterials is being coordinated in Australia. The ANFF was founded in 2007, and now encompasses facilities from 19 universities across the country. To date, $200 million has been sp
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